[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
[X] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.

They were apparently allies and just tried to stab them in the back. Attacking will not work as it will start a feud and the ninjas are just a borrowed power, our group would do badly once we finished our mission.

Trying to give them back and open up discussion will make our group of nomads look weak.

Just go over the next hill with better pastures and integrate the young men. This gives our group of nomads a chance to learn some ninja techniques of its own and help it defend itself better.
 
[] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.

Edit: Switching...

[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
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[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
[X] Argue that they should send an armed delegation to confront the tribe. If it goes in with shinobi support, then surely they'll get the message?
 
[X] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.

Since they keep mum...
 
[X] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.
 
Vote closes tonight!

Edit: Short notes.

1) They refuse to talk, but perhaps you can be more convincing? It's possible at least.
2) These aren't what you'll do, they're what you're arguing for. The DC on, "Ignore it" is the highest, so just noting that if you fail to convince him, you're going on the mission anyways.
 
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[] Agree to the mission. Steal a few dozen cows, sow chaos, escape.
[] Argue that they should send an armed delegation to confront the tribe. If it goes in with shinobi support, then surely they'll get the message?
[] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.

I guess that by confront you don't mean to attack but to ask them what the hell is going on, right?

The tribe we are protecting is already scraping by, so I don't want to eat up resources on them like that. Considering how they refused to back down, I guess they are either a)desperate (so something really bad happened to them) or b) they were coerced into doing it. It could also be retribution for something our tribe did (read, the secret mission that the suposed-ninja-family did, but then they wouldn't be so quiet about it. So I'm betting coerced. If that's the case, I doubt we can convince the prisioners to talk (specially since we don't speak their language), but sending people increases the chances of finding out what is going on. Besides, there's this quote of the update:
"So, no harm done," Masato said. "We let them off with a warning? Don't do it again, young man, with your chakra and your near-shinobi level skills?" Masato asked it with a frown, as if he actually thought that's what should be done, but the way he framed it only left one answer.
The way it's phrased it sounds like Masato is guiding the conversation. Sure, he doesn't want to go in a rampage, but he still points out the problem of not acting, though subtletly. I bet that if we argued for ignoring the problem we would have his "support"... and would be more difficult because of it. he might have a secret agenda.

Finally, a comment to rise the paranoia
It began with a sound like a bird cawing, loud and long, and then from behind a rise in the hills they came.
It might be just me grasping at straws, but we alreadyhave faced someone with bird summons in this Act, haven't we?
 
[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
Thinking about it more, we're going to be on this mission with Masato. Masato could be working for anyone, so I really don't trust him. Going on the mission/leaving the group might be exactly what Masato wants. (We could be walking into an ambush, for example.) It's not like we need five ninja to pull it off, but it'd be really dangerous to split our group. I almost made a vote to split the group, but I've reconsidered.
 
[X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
 
They are nomads, trying take stuff from other nomads.

Instead of asking for help, they just tried to backstab their friends. It is what they do :V

Just go off on our merry way and try to marry the young men with this tribe. Steal their tech Bring the knowledge of Chakra enhancement to our own their tribe. These lands are big and our people wander anyway. We just need to go too far for them to affect us and we would be fine.

Vote to Ignore!
[] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.
 
It's not actually a tie. Interrogate wins 8-7, but Karmaoa's vote is separate for some reason (typo somewhere?). Merge that back in, and the victor is clear.
Adhoc vote count started by The Laurent on Dec 12, 2017 at 6:39 PM, finished with 35 posts and 17 votes.

  • [X] There's no obvious time pressure - we should wake a few of the men up and interrogate them first. The reasons for their actions should inform our response.
    [X] Argue that they should ignore it. Or rather… keep the young men as hostages and continue on as if nothing happened. If someone comes to ask for the young men back, then… and if they don't, that's a dozen less people the other tribe has to try the same thing again.
    [X] Argue that they should send an armed delegation to confront the tribe. If it goes in with shinobi support, then surely they'll get the message?
 
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